What bonding?
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Naruto looked confused at the elder Uchiha before a dawning look appeared on her face as she realized what he was referring to, "One, my kotoamatsukami is far more effective than your Tsukuyomi. Two, he wasn't trying anything, he just tripped. Three, you know what happened last time you used that on him! He was in the hospital for days!"
"Hn." was all he replied as he kept his stare directly on the man on top of his late best friend's fiancé. "Kakashi-senpai, how long do you plan on staying on top of her? You must know that whilst she has that necklace on, I have the right to kill any man who dares touch her."
Seeing Kakashi's perplexed look, the Uzumaki took grasp of something around her neck before closing her eyes, and when she reopened them, she opened her hand to show Kakashi her necklace, "This is the Uchiha clans equivalent to an engagement ring, since engagement rings have stones in them it makes it harder to create hand signs so a necklace is used instead. The Uchiha fan being on it is for obvious reasons but the swirl in the middle of it represents two merging clans in a wedded union. Then in the back the Namikaze clan symbol and a seal so only certain people can see it. It's basically an Uchiha way of saying 'Touch my bride and I'll kill you' and they will have all the rights to do so, kinda like your clans mating mark, if anyone dares touch someone with that mark, the clan has the right to kill them or do as they see fit." He nodded his head, it made sense and the pendant itself was beautiful, it was the size of a pointer finger rolled up (2p), round in shape on what he assumed was titanium. The clan symbols had been etched in and then painted over, he could also feel chakra coming from it. Looking closer he could see blue stones lining it and asked what they were and whose chakra was in it, to which she replied, "Oh those are basically chakra crystals from the shodaime's necklace. I'm not sure how Shisui got a hold of them, though and it's Shisui's chakra."
And was at that comment Itachi spoke up again, voice sounding slightly miffed, "Shisui asked Lady Tsunade for bits of the crystal using the excuse that if she would not give the necklace, due to the curse she believed it held, then she could at least give pieces of the crystal since you are the jinchuriki of the nine tails." Kakashi looked up to see his old ANBU partner glaring at him and had he not been a trained assassin who helped teach him, he would have cowered under the infamous Uchiha glare.
"Oh, that's enough Itachi! And Kakashi! As much as I love you on top of me-" the glare she felt became even stronger as Kakashi's face went red, "-I need you to get off me since I think Itachi is about ready to kill you."
He jumped off her as is she was being burnt by the Amaterasu's black flame itself, his hands once again taking the, I'm-innocent pose.
He suddenly regretted that decision, however, when he started to feel dizzy as Naruto got up to give the Uchiha a hug as he spun her in the air, laughing could be heard from the blonde as Itachi had a smile on his face.
He fainted.
Kakashi Hatake of the Sharingan fainted. Though, in all fairness, after the amount of information, he was just given as well as seeing a well-known clan murderer in his apartment is very friendly with his student, no one could blame him.
It didn't mean people said people couldn't laugh about it. He was the student of the yondaime Hokage, the one to master control of a Sharingan eye and be able to use it to all its available capabilities. The teacher to the woman who united the five nations. How his predecessors would either be laughing their heads off or face-palming.
After he had fainted, Itachi placed the older man on the sofa as Naruto and he started to discuss what they will do with their future knowledge and agreed on the following; Itachi will act the same as he had last time but since he has the required information to stop Orochimaru, he should try without looking suspicious, next he will warn Pain about Madara, Naruto will tell Sasuke after the preliminaries about Itachi who will join up with them after the chunin exams. If they decided on anything else they will inform each other via summons. After that Itachi left to go back to Kisame who was a couple of villages away from their current location.
Sighing, Naruto got up and rifled through Kakashi's cabinets and fridge to look for something to cook. When she saw there was hardly anything in his kitchen she decided to send a clone to Ichirakus for a few bowls of ramen, on her. Whilst her clone did that, she decided to take out some of her fuinjutsu supplies and make a new seal for controlling all elements properly.
With the Sharingan and the power of Ashura, she was able to use all the elements, however, using earth, fire and lightning used far more chakra than it should, even though she had the chakra of the nine tailed beasts, it was best to have better control over it.
However, no matter what she did, it just wasn't right. She already had a seal on her arm that allowed her to control the elements better, but it wasn't enough. With the amount of chakra she used, anyone would be able to sense her even if they were rookies.
I need to have better control over both my yin-yang release. Maybe then I'll be able to, no that's not it. Come on! I'm a citizen of fire country! I should be able to use fire no problem!
"You may have been born here, however, your mother was from Uzushiogakure that had high levels of control over wind and water, whereas your father had control over wind, fire, and lighting. Theoretically, you should have been able to do fire and lightning techniques with less chakra but that isn't the case here. Perhaps you could ask the wolf for some assistance whilst he is your teacher."
"You're meant to make me feel better, fur-ball."
"Who do you think you are calling a fur-ball?!"
"You. Because you constantly roll into a ball and you're furry."
"Enough of this. Get back to work, woman."
Deciding to ignore the jab of being a woman, she continued to rake her brain for ways to improve her use of fire and lighting thinking if she used more of the other tailed beasts chakra it would help but thought against it as people would notice if she had several different chakra signatures leaking out of her.
In the end, she agreed with Kurama to get Kakashi to train her on how to use those two elements better. She had never wanted to in the future as people would question her strength if she went to someone else for help which always bugged her.
At some point in the afternoon, Kakashi woke up and when she asked him, over a bowl of ramen, if he would teach her how to use fire and lightning more efficiently, he reluctantly agreed. She also got him to agree to train the team properly this time since last time he hadn't and Sasuke left the village.
Not that she blamed Kakashi for that, not at all, he had taught the guy how to use Chidori last time after all. No, this time he would have to train them together as a team so Sasuke would understand the importance of bonds and not vengeance.
She left sometime after four. They had been together for four hours. She shrugged as she used the hiraishin to go to the valley of the end, sitting atop the shodaimes head, after having left a note on her door saying where she had gone, if anyone came to look for her.
Looking around, she couldn't help but reminisce about her battle here with Sasuke when they were both thirteen. She had been trying to use and push away Kurama's chakra back then and look at her now.
Having complete control not only over Kurama's chakra but the chakra of all tailed beasts.
She thought back to what the rikudou sannin had said, Indara and Ashura being reborn over and over in different bodies. Would that still happen? She still had the power granted to her so taking her meditating pose she tried to access the power to reach the old man, but felt a block. Frowning, she tried again only to find the same block once again.
Huffing, the made a mental tab to get back to that whenever she could. She really did need to know if Sasuke would be able to use Indra's powers anytime soon or if she would have to do something in order to trigger them. Hmm... I could always use the kotoamatsukami-
"You like that jutsu too much, especially when you factor in it's not yours but the Uchiha clans."
"Admit it, if it wasn't an Uchiha kekkei-genkai then you would have no problem with me using it."
"But of course. I know the boy loved you very much, however, my hatred over the Uchiha's will never wane."
"Don't you ever get bored of always being angry?"
"Never. It makes my enemies fear me and cower whenever they see me when they feel my hatred."
"You're a lost cause Kurama. Well as long as you're not as annoying as before, go right ahead."
"Brat." With that final jab, he went back to sleep. Again.
He could out-sleep a Nara. She thought to herself. As she watched the sunset she felt tired and fell asleep.
She woke up the next morning at sunrise at the valley of the end and quickly hiraishined back to her apartment, praying no one had noticed she hadn't returned last night.
Alas, lady luck was not on her side as when she entered the whole of team 7 were making themselves at home. Well, Kakashi was making himself at home whereas Sasuke and Sakura looked like they didn't want to be anywhere near there, which was odd since Sasuke was used to being here, meaning they had a serious conversation or Kakashi made a rude comment.
She counted her blessings that she had cleaned her apartment the other day otherwise it would have looked very messy.
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Kakashi was confused. After Naruto had left his apartment he went to the memorial stone to talk to Obito and Rin, once he had spent a few hours there he left to go for a walk. He found himself in the apartment district that was made for young orphans when he saw something white on a door that had the Uzumaki swirl on it which he assumed was Naruto's. No one else in Konoha would have a door that stood out like that.
He walked up the stairs that led to the apartment and saw it was, in fact, a note saying the blonde female was in the valley of the end. Nothing too suspicious besides the fact that she had left the village and no one knew. Ideally, he should be going to the Hokage and telling him she was out of the village but thought against it. It wasn't something to be concerned about, she was made Hokage and had the power of a sage and the nine tails.
He suddenly had a thought that mentally gave him a large evil grin. He would go get his little genins and make them stay here until she returned. Nodding to himself he went made a clone go to Sakura whilst he went to the Uchiha, who lived nearby anyway.
He shunshined to the apartment he knew the Uchiha was staying in and knocked. He was greeted by the sight of wet haired Sasuke Uchiha followed by some cats.
"Kakashi? What are you doing here? We don't have a mission, do we? Or are we training?" the boy asked after having enough of the jonin not saying anything.
Giving him a small eye smile he ruffled the dark hair before replying, "Well, not really. Naruto seems to have gone out for a bit and I wanted us to do some team bonding. So we will all wait in her apartment." Sasuke was surprised to hear their jonin sensei knew she was a girl however decided to ask something when Kakashi asked him, "Do you have a key to her apartment? I know she trusts you as you're the last thing besides the necklace of hers that remains of Shisui Uchiha."
Sasuke's eye grew wide. He not only knew she was a girl, he knew she was engaged to his late cousin and that she wore a necklace. Said necklace had a seal on to make sure no one but the Uchiha could see it, and of course, those who meant her harm, telling them that if they laid a hand on her, they would face the wrath of the Uchiha clan.
Realizing what he had done, Sasuke changed his expression blank again and went to get Naruto's keys from under his pillow. He came out and as the two of them made their way down they were greeted by Sakura and another Kakashi who waved at them and vanished.
"Sasuke! Kakashi-sensei! What are we doing here?" asked the pink haired girl so loud it grated at Kakashi's sensitive hearing. She looked around and definitely recognized what this was, however, as she looked there was a hint of disdain. She must know that Naruto lives here.
"Team bonding at Naruto's." was all the Uchiha said as they made their way up to her apartment.
They stopped at her door and Sakura asked, "Wait! There's a note." both males rolled their eyes, they weren't blind. Reading it she said, "He's in the valley of the end? What for? Never mind. If he's not here then how are we going to do this?" They both ignored her and Sasuke took the key out of his pocket to open the door, "Wait, why do you have his keys?!"
After having had enough Sasuke turned around and let Kakashi open the door, "I told you before. Naruto was engaged to an Uchiha. With the Uchiha all dead, it's my responsibility to make sure no harm comes to him. Now stop being so annoying and be a normal kunoichi, would you? I am seriously considering going to the sandaime and asking for a replacement." with that he went inside and changed his shoes to sandals looking at home and not long after she was following the male members of Team 7.
As he walked in, Kakashi looked at all the pictures. Some of ramen bowls, some with the sandaime, however, the ones that caught his eye were the ones including the Uchiha's. Fugaku, Mikoto and some of the UPF were in a few, however, the most consisted of Itachi, Sasuke, and Shisui. What really caught his eye was in all the pictures the Uchiha's were smiling, not nearly as wide as Naruto, but smiling none the less.
Turning around, he saw Sakura look at all the pictures with both curiosity and envy. He would need to have another serious word with her if she didn't change her way soon or he would have to replace her. If envy got out of control it could lead to harm to the team, both emotionally and physically.
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Clearing her throat they all turned to look at her, "Why are you all in my apartment so early in the morning?"
The younger members of team 7 turned to glare at Kakashi who simply went over to her and ruffled her hair. "Well technically we were here last night but alas you weren't here. So I told these two we'd be staying here till you came home."
Slowly nodding she spoke, "Okay, why were you here?"
"Kakashi-sensei came to my and Sasuke's homes saying we had to do some team bonding exercises to get to know each other better. Personally and professionally."
Naruto raised a brow at Kakashi she whispered, "When I said we should work on our team collaboration, this isn't what I had in mind."
"Maa, never mind. Work with me here." with that said he turned around and smacked his hands together, "Right, Naruto. Where do you keep your cooking supplies and food?"
"Most of my food and supplies are in scrolls except those foods that have to go in the fridge," she replied slowly, not liking where this was going.
"Good, good. Which scrolls?"
"The ones in the cabinets."
"Naruto why would you keep them in scrolls?" Sakura was the first to lose to her curiosity. Again.
"No one will be able to steal or damage them if they're in scrolls. Also, if I need to suddenly leave, they're all easily accessible," she replied before. When Kakashi froze she realized what she had said, whoops.
"Why would anyone want to do that?"
"You know not many people like me in the village, Sakura. Put two and two together, won't you?" she replied, for the classes top kunoichi, she wasn't very smart.
Before Sakura could open her mouth again Kakashi spoke up again, "Maa, Naruto. Could you get the ingredients required for something quick and simple?"
"How about eggplant and tomato soup?" Two sets of eyes looked at her with gleams in their eyes, and the heads they belonged to nodded vigorously.
However, there was one person in the room that disagreed, "That may sound healthy and nice to you Naruto, but I have to maintain my weight and-"
"And get blown away by a wind jutsu whilst you're at it. Without the proper nutrients, you'll never be able to get strong and look after yourself or be a useful kunoichi." she snapped. She really hated this Sakura. The one that was nothing more than a fan-girl who was all talk and no game.
"And what would the class dead last know?"
"Apparently a great deal more than you. Do you want to keep up your stupid diet? Fine. Don't come crying to any of us when you get injured or fatigue from the work you'll have to do. And don't come crying when you get injured either. You think being a kunoichi or a shinobi means you can do as you please? It may be your body, but you serve Konohagakure, you cannot protect it's people if you're frail like a civilian." she paused to let it sink into the pinkette. "If you don't want to eat my cooking, don't whine about it and get something for yourself."
Everyone looked shocked at the blondes reaction and Naruto half expected Kakashi to cool down the room, but to her shock and everyone else's as well, Sasuke was the one who stepped in, "Sakura. Firstly, you're being very rude to Naruto. This is his home and he gets to make as he pleases. We are the ones who trespassed and he was kind enough to agree to feed us. Secondly, what Naruto said is true and if you don't change your ways, we can always request to have a change of teammate due to incompetence. Now, will you stay here with us all and eat what we're going to work together to cook, or will you leave and get something you prefer to eat?"
Naruto has had enough of this conversation, went to the kitchen and took out the necessary ingredients and tools to make the soup. She saw Kakashi enter the kitchen with her and leaned against the counter and quietly spoke, "Care to tell me why you were in the valley of the end?"
"Reminiscing the time Sasuke shoved the Chidori through me when he defected."
"He what?!"
"Shhh! Do you want them to walk in whilst we're having this discussion?" he shook his head, "He defected sometime after the chunin exam. Don't worry about it, I and Itachi have a plan for that."
Nodding his head, he decided to drop it and choose a different topic, "Why did you have a go at Sakura? And I'm not reprimanding you, she needs to learn sooner or later, preferably sooner."
She noticed everything was out so she gave another knife and chopping board to Kakashi and they both started cutting up the vegetables in front of them, "I can't stand looking at her. She always used to hit me in this time but in the future, stuff happens and she becomes a strong kunoichi and has amazing healing skills. This one is nothing more than a fan-girl. She was actually the apprentice of Lady Tsunade and had her monstrous strength as well. That's something you can get her to work on. Strength and medical ninjutsu. She had accepted me after some time but in the end, we were good friends. Funny thing is, I was arguing with Sasuke to take part in the CRA when I got sent here." She and Kakashi put the necessary ingredients in the pot as Sasuke and Sakura came into the kitchen, and both set off to help the two already cooking.